Hacker News: CoastalCoder

New comment by CoastalCoder in "Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled"

CoastalCoder — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 02:04:39 +0000

Even better.

It's web-scale.

New comment by CoastalCoder in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

CoastalCoder — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 11:35:14 +0000

For what it's worth, I think I understood your original post as you intended it.

(Just mentioning this so you know the wording wasn't universally confusing.)

New comment by CoastalCoder in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

CoastalCoder — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:16:23 +0000

You might want to reconsider using "gypped" in that way.

New comment by CoastalCoder in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

CoastalCoder — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:14:39 +0000

(looks at Secretary of the Treasury...)

"SCOOOTTTTT !!!!!!"

New comment by CoastalCoder in "Elevated errors on Claude Opus 5"

CoastalCoder — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:56:00 +0000

"As of 4:47 PST / 11:47 UTC the errors "

From Wikipedia: "The Pacific Time Zone (PT) is a time zone encompassing the western United States and northwestern Mexico. Places in this zone observe standard time by subtracting eight hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−08:00). During daylight saving time, a time offset of UTC−07:00 is used instead."

When did this confusion become so prevalent?

New comment by CoastalCoder in "The Strongest El Niño Ever"

CoastalCoder — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 23:48:09 +0000

> There's a lot to criticise of every country, but we're trying. The US is not trying (*)

I'd argue that it's a bit misleading to treat the US as a single entity for this topic.

The population is deeply divided on issues like this one.

New comment by CoastalCoder in "Medici family mystery may be solved after more than 400 years"

CoastalCoder — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 23:23:33 +0000

Not sure, but I would 100% buy a copy of your family cookbook.

Just imagine the titles you could use.

New comment by CoastalCoder in "Who Is America's Homer?"

CoastalCoder — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:26:03 +0000

The "stupid" question is generating a lot of interesting conversation.

New comment by CoastalCoder in "What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph"

CoastalCoder — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:33:38 +0000

Yeah, I really like Slashdot's approach to both regular and meta moderation.

I don't understand why it never caught on elsewhere.

New comment by CoastalCoder in "Meta trying to destroy whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams, US senator says"

CoastalCoder — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:51:12 +0000

Honest question:

If you have no evidence, then why do you believe it?

New comment by CoastalCoder in "Microsoft deleted my account and OneDrive"

CoastalCoder — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 22:27:16 +0000

It does now, apparently.

New comment by CoastalCoder in "Why it's so difficult to produce American-made medical gloves"

CoastalCoder — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 11:56:24 +0000

One of the comments provides an archive link to the story.

I was kind of able to read that on my Android phone, but something on the page made panning really janky so I gave up.

New comment by CoastalCoder in "US seeks cheaper hunter-killer drones after Iran destroys $1B worth of Reapers"

CoastalCoder — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:42:08 +0000

Most of us who build weapons of war live with some awful dilemmas. One of them is:

We want to perform our work skillfully, effectively, and professionally. But we never want our tools to actually be needed.

(Another is that we can't effectively create a shield without the risk of it being used as a sword.)

New comment by CoastalCoder in "US seeks cheaper hunter-killer drones after Iran destroys $1B worth of Reapers"

CoastalCoder — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:38:59 +0000

If you think Milspec is expensive, you should see the cost of not having a Milspec supply chain while still being risk-averse.

New comment by CoastalCoder in "Ask HN: Another "Hacker News" with less AI and more human-focused hacking news?"

CoastalCoder — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:50:53 +0000

I don't do web stuff, but I wonder if one could easily create a browser extension that hides AI-centric submissions?

New comment by CoastalCoder in "Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID"

CoastalCoder — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 10:29:00 +0000

Thanks, I wasn't aware of that.

I have the urge to grab a pitchfork, but I know better than to make assumptions about why that functionality was added. Time to do some homework I guess.

New comment by CoastalCoder in "Januscape: Guest-to-Host Escape in KVM/x86 [CVE-2026-53359]"

CoastalCoder — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:50:40 +0000

Some of the comments here talk about the risk this poses for multi tenant vm providers.

Wouldn't this also be a risk for people using VMs to sandbox untrusted code running on trusted hosts?

New comment by CoastalCoder in "Januscape: Guest-to-Host Escape in KVM/x86 [CVE-2026-53359]"

CoastalCoder — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:46:21 +0000

I'm just starting to read up on capabilities-based security in Linux.

Would they potentially be a solution to sudo's all-or-nothing granularity in this domain?

New comment by CoastalCoder in "Jim Keller's startup is building a factory to mass-produce small chip fabs"

CoastalCoder — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 23:49:55 +0000

Chuck Norris will pass his torch to Jim Keller.

Jim won't have a say in the matter.

New comment by CoastalCoder in "Trust your compiler: Modern C++"

CoastalCoder — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 13:28:35 +0000

I really dislike the complexity of modern C++ language specs, but does it obscure much detail about FP ops?

TL;DR:

A vast majority of the programmers I've worked with don't understand the nuances of FP in general, nor the various extents of IEEE-754 support in different programming languages.

So for important numerical programming, I think clarity regarding the FP operations being performed can be crucial. I'm just unclear if modern C++ is a significant factor for that.